We grow lots of intermediate growing orchids! It's a perfect fit for our coastal Northern California weather. Nighttime temps for these plants range from 55°F-62°F and daytime temps from 75°F-85°F.
Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot.
This Maxillaria produces 1-1.5" gold, wing-shaped flowers. Both the sepals and petals have maroon stripes. The lip is black.
Care: Prefers cool-intermediate temps but will tolerate warm temps, indirect light, regular watering, and light feeding year-round.
Large, well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot.
The coconut cream pie orchid! With some orchids, they're fragrant but it's a stretch to call them "chocolate" or "vanilla". With this plant, it smells like there is a pie in the oven!
This plant is one of our favorites. It grows fast and flowers well when treated nicely. The flowers are small (1.5" across) but a plant in a 6" pot may have 100 or more at the same time.
Care: Cool to warm climate, bright indirect light, let dry out between light waterings in winter.
Large, well-established blooming size plant in 3.25" pot.This is a great little plant! Super easy to grow and very forgiving. Likes temps from cool to hot, doesn't mind drying out a little between waterings, likes bright light, and produces bright yellow nickel-sized flowers randomly all year long. What's not to like?Care: Regular year-round watering and light feeding, cool-hot temps, bright indirect light.
Large, well-established blooming size plant in 3.25" pot.This is a great little plant! Super easy to grow and very forgiving. Likes temps from cool to hot, doesn't mind drying out a little between waterings, likes bright light, and produces bright yellow nickel-sized flowers randomly all year long. What's not to like?Care: Regular year-round watering and light feeding, cool-hot temps, bright indirect light.
Miniature orchid species Mediocalcar decoratum. Blooming size plant in a 3" basket.
These tiny, mat-forming plants produce a flush of tiny (the size of a sunflower kernel) orange and red flowers that remind me of candy corn! Spring bloomerCare: Cold to intermediate temps, partial shade, regular watering year-round and regular, light feeding spring-fall. Never let the plant remain dried out for an extended period, especially in temps over 75°F.
This is Miltonia (regnelii v alba x (spectabilis v moreliana x Seminole Blood). I know it's a mouthful but we haven't registered a name for it yet! Large, well-established blooming size plant in 3.25" pot.
I love this new cross we made! Every single plant has unique flowers! All have produced 3-6 flowers on their first flower spike. Flowers have been 3"-4" across. The majority of plants have had spotted flowers. The plant flowers in the late summer/early fall. I have included several pictures of flowers that have already bloomed to show a representation of the flowers we have seen so far. Please note: I cannot pick a particular flower pattern. Later in the season I will have auctions for individual plants with select flowers on our eBay site (Orchids for the People). Select plants will be considerably more expensive!
Care: Intermediate - warm temps, bright indirect sun, regular watering, and light feeding year-round.
Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot.A fascinating african species. The plant reaches a height of 2-3 feet and has a .5-1' flower spike that produces an abundance of fragrant 1" white flowers that form a loose sphere similar to many Epidendrum species. Flowers continue to be produced from the top of the inflorescence over a period of 4-8 weeks. This species produces many keikeis along the stems as well as old flower spikes. Big plants are bushy and somewhat rambling.
Does best in large pots with a terrestrial mix.Care: int-hot temps. Very bright light-full sun. Regular watering year round.
Newly divided blooming size plants in 3" net pots.
An uncommon orchid that is also easy to grow. The only species in this genus, N. pulchella is a creeper that grows into a mat. Can be hung up in its current basket and allowed to trail where it wishes but also adapts easily to being mounted vertically or horizontally. This species doesn't need repotting very often and doesn't need a large mount, pot or basket because the majority of the plant just dangles in open space! Flowers in the Fall with bright lavendar flowers.Care: Can be grown cool-warm and prefers intermediate light. We water them a lot in the Spring/Summer and only a little in the Winter.
Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot.
Closely related to Epidendrums, these plants are very easy to grow and flower. Beautiful, long-lasting bluish-purple flowers emerge from the tips of the long, branching canes late winter all the way through summer. One of the longest flowering periods of any plant in our greenhouses. Rooted branches can easily be divided, like a reed stem Epidendrum.
Oerstedella schweinfurthiana (syn Epidendendrum schweinfurthianum). Well-rooted in 3.25" pots. 1-2 years from blooming size.
These easy-to-grow Epidendrum relatives have amazing 1" flowers with sepals and petals that are bluish-purple on the back and orange-red to bronze and a bluish-purple lip. Flowers develop in bunches of 4-10 flowers in the fall-winter. Mature plants produce wispy, flexible stems that can EASILY REACH 10 FEET LONG.
Looking to buy quantity! Check out this plant in the Wholesale and Volume Pricing Collection!
Care: cool-warm temps, indirect-bright indirect light, regular watering and fertilizer spring-fall, and let dry between light waterings in the winter.
Ornithophora (Sigmatostalix) radicans. Well-established, plant in a 3.25" pot.This miniature plant blooms profusely from spring through fall and produces tiny, fragrant oncidium-like flowers. Plant become little bushes when mature and are best mounted or planted in a hanging basket. Easy to grow and grows really fast when happy!
Care: Bright indirect light, intermediat to warm temps, regular watering and light feeding spring through fall with a slightly drier winter rest.
Very limited quantities!
Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot. Well-established blooming size plant in a 3.25" pot. These started as 2 pseudobulb divisions last year and now have at least 1 new pseudobulb since being divided.
In our humble opinion, one of the prettiest and showiest of the "Encyclia group" (it's been called Encyclia, Prosthecea, and Panarica in the last decade, so take your pick of names!). The flowers, which are 4"+, are without a doubt some of the largest flowers of the group. Each 18-24" flower spike will have 8-14 flowers that open simultaneously. Plus they have a nice, light fragrance in the evening!
Easy to grow and very forgiving.
Care: cool-warm temps, bright indirect light, regular watering, and fertilizer spring-fall with a drier winter.
